[comp.sys.mac.programmer] "much beloved" AppleL*nk?

ws0n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Walter Ray Smith) (05/14/88)

Must be some line noise in our news feed.  :-)

I hope whoever is responsible for A****L*nk has been suitably punished.  I'm
really glad end users can't get accounts--imagine the embarrasment for Apple!
(See previous discussion of garish user interfaces.)

"We'll make a Macintosh application the only interface to the system.  Of
course, messages will still be ASCII text formatted with hard returns into
80-character lines, but that way we can represent them with little icons in a
window."

It's the kind of situation where I say to myself, "Why bother complaining?  If
they're that far removed from reality, why should I expect them to listen?"  I
guess I should be thankful you can use a 1200-baud modem.

- Walt

P.S. Sorry about this, I just realized that I've never flamed about A****L*nk
before.